Adolphe Monticelli - Woodland Worship - Google Art Project
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Alfred Sisley - The Road from Versailles to Saint-Germain - Google Art...
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Gustave Courbet - Waves - Google Art Project
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Gustave Doré - Scottish Highlands - Google Art Project
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Henri Fantin-Latour - Roses in a Vase - Google Art Project
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Edouard Manet - At the Café - Google Art Project
Google Cultural Institute Public domain photograph of Edouard Manet 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883 was a French painter and a prominent figure in... More
Jean-François Millet, French - Bird's-Nesters - Google Art Project
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Jean-François Millet - A Norman Milkmaid at Gréville - Google Art Proj...
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Horses in a Meadow. National Gallery of Art public domain dedication.
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Alphonse de Neuville - In the Trenches - Walters 37118
Members of the Garde Mobile (French expeditionary forces) are huddled in a shallow trench during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. De Neuville has conveyed the general misery and tedium between battles that i... More
Alphonse de Neuville - Information - Walters 3793
A mounted officer of the Engineers with map in hand is seeking directions from a peasant tending his flock with a dog. Another mounted soldier is visible in the background. A pen and ink drawing of this subject... More
Alphonse de Neuville - The Attack at Dawn - Walters 3740
The scene is a French town in the Jura region, near the Swiss border. As a bugler sounds the alarm, French troops (Algerian riflemen and members of the Garde Mobile) rush from an inn to defend themselves from t... More
Auguste-Emile Flick - The Beach at Fécamp - Walters 372641
Flick exhibited at the Paris Salons between 1870 and 1882. Although not a member of the impressionist group, he shared with them an interest in painting outdoors. His technique, however, with its attention to e... More
Charles François Daubigny - The Coming Storm; Early Spring - Walters 3...
Daubigny's loose, spontaneous brushwork and rich use of color provide a direct link with the work of the impressionists. Like his younger colleagues, he was also regularly criticized for producing mere "impress... More
Claude Monet - Springtime - Walters 3711
Monet moved to Argenteuil, a suburban town on the right bank of the Seine River northwest of Paris, in late December 1871. Many of the types of scenes that he and the other Impressionists favored could be found... More
Edouard Manet - At the Café - Walters 37893
Manet was the quintessential "Painter of Modern Life," a phrase coined by art critic and poet Charles Baudelaire. In 1878-79, he painted a number of scenes set in the Cabaret de Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Ro... More
Edouard Manet 030 - coin, public domain photograph
Manet was the quintessential "Painter of Modern Life," a phrase coined by art critic and poet Charles Baudelaire. In 1878-79, he painted a number of scenes set in the Cabaret de Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Ro... More
Eugène Fromentin - At the Well - Walters 37100
During French rule in Algeria, which lasted from 1830 to 1962, North Africa played a key role in French life, serving as a training ground for its army and attracting writers and artists. Fromentin, an influent... More
Eugène Louis Boudin - Trouville - Walters 37840
From the early 1860s, Boudin depicted elegant tourists on the Normandy coast. Trouville had recently been established as a fashionable summer resort with its own casino and luxury hotels. Boudin's attitude towa... More
Georges Jules Victor Clairin - Entering the Harem - Walters 3782 (2)
A haughty sheik stands at the entrance to his harem as a servant pulls aside a curtain to reveal its inhabitants. The elaborately inlaid door and the honeycombed vaulting of the architecture recall the Hall of ... More
Georges Jules Victor Clairin - Entering the Harem - Walters 3782
A haughty sheik stands at the entrance to his harem as a servant pulls aside a curtain to reveal its inhabitants. The elaborately inlaid door and the honeycombed vaulting of the architecture recall the Hall of ... More
Gustave Courbet - The Stream of the Black Well - Walters 37203
Gustave Courbet enjoyed enormous commercial success with his landscapes. He painted around 300 views of his native Franche-Comté, including some 20 examples of this secluded spot. Courbet's technique is distinc... More
Gustave Doré - Landscape in Scotland - Walters 372625
As a native of Alsace in eastern France and lacking the formal training provided in Paris, Doré began his career as an illustrator and remained outside the mainstream of French painting. His dramatic landscapes... More
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Fisherman's Cottage - Walters 37164
Corot first visited the Normandy coast in the early 1820s and often returned thereafter. Since he did not visit the coast in 1871, this must represent a memory of an earlier stay based on studies or simply on h... More
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissionier - Courtyard of the Artist's Studio - Wal...
"Courtyard of the Artist's Studio" was not a study for a large-scale painting; rather, it was conceived of as a work of art in its own right and was, in fact, published in a folio of images of similar subjects ... More
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton - Returning from the Fields - Walters ...
Although often associated with the Barbizon school, Breton favored a more idealized treatment of his subjects and a more polished style of painting. In this rural scene, probably set in the artist's native Pas-... More
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton - Returning from the Fields - Walters ...
Although often associated with the Barbizon school, Breton favored a more idealized treatment of his subjects and a more polished style of painting. In this rural scene, probably set in the artist's native Pas-... More
Jules Dupré - At Sea - Walters 37135
Jules Dupré's restless seascapes reveal the artist's interest in nature at its most dramatic, often depicting sunsets or scenes in which storm clouds gather and waves are whipped into action by the wind. This a... More
Jules Dupré - Sunset on the Coast - Walters 37120
Dupré concentrated on marine painting during the last twenty years of his life. He acquired a house at Cayeux in 1865, returning annually. These late paintings are characterized by low horizons, intense colors,... More
Louis Gallait - Peace - Walters 37119
When this pair of allegorical paintings (together with Walters 37.124) was completed in 1872, a Belgian critic wrote: M. Gallait just finished two paintings forming a pendant pair that rank among the ... More
Louis Gallait - War - Walters 37124
When this pair of allegorical paintings (together with Walters 37.119) was completed in 1872, a Belgian critic wrote: M. Gallait just finished two paintings forming a pendant pair that rank among the ... More
Léon Bonnat - An Arab Sheik - Walters 37173 Paul Delaroche
In 1868-69, Bonnat accompanied Jean-Léon Gérôme on a tour of Egypt and the Holy Land. During the trip, he made a number of sketches, which he used as the basis for paintings after he returned to Paris. Bonnat w... More
Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret - An Accident - Walters 3749
After training with Alexandre Cabanel (1823-89) and Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), Dagnan-Bouveret turned from Classical themes to subjects drawn from everyday life. In this scene, a country doctor bandages a bo... More
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - Hope - Walters 37156
In the wake of the catastrophic Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the artist painted this picture of a young woman seated in a devastated landscape holding an oak twig as a symbol of hope for the nation's recover... More
William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The Cherry Picker - Walters 372780 - Fron...
The whereabouts of "The Cherry Picker" has been unknown to specialists for at least the better part of the last century; thus, the reappearance of this major canvas is breathtaking. That it should have resided ... More